WLA Christmas Party at Mansion House, London, 7.12.1945
WLA Christmas ticket for a party at Mansion House, London on 7th December 1945. This Christmas party was a way to thank Land Girls who stayed on after the war for all of their...
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WLA and WTC members remembered at the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph, London, 13 November 2016
A member of the WRAC Association with a wreath for the WLA and WTC, before they laid it at the Cenotaph in London on Sunday.
March Activity of the Month: Lambing
From left to right, top to bottom: Women’s Land Army recruitment poster. Source: Getty Images As an experiment the London County council have employed twelve land girls for the first time. They are helping...
65th Anniversary: WLA Disbandment Parade, London (1950)
Today is the 65th anniversary of the 21 October 1950 ‘Farewell Parade’ of 500 representative land girls from all the counties in England and Wales before Queen Elizabeth, their Patron, at Buckingham Palace, to...
WW1 Land Girl: Emma Jolly
Emma Jolly was born in 1895 and served with the Women’s Land Army from 1917. She trained at Highcroft in Hertfordshire and was posted to Arkley Rise estate near Barnet where she worked hard...